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THE HERITAGE OF ASCLEPIUS. MEDICINE VERSUS THE HUMANITIES

The Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, hereby invites you to a new series of museum events in 2019 under the title of ‘The Heritage of Asclepius. Medicine  versus the Humanities’. The aim of the first series of these meetings will be to present medicine against a background of the humanities, such as history of art, literature, theatre, law and philosophy. All the meetings will take place on the first Monday of each month at 5 p.m. During the warmer months of the year, we would also like to invite you to take part in walks which are planned along the Royal Route and on the Lindley Campus. To start with, on 7 January, Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz, Director of the Museum of the History of Medicine, will give a lecture entitled: ‘The relationship between Apollo and Asclepius, that is the relationship between art and medicine’. During the lecture you will learn about the diseases from which well-known artists suffered, including Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Stanisław Wyspiański, and also discover which early modern works of art and sculptures should be included in the catalogue devoted to the connections between art and medicine and what characterized the architecture of the most famous European hospitals.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday 7 January 2019 at 5 p.m.

Programme:

7 January 2019 – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz (Director of the Museum of the History of Medicine): ‘The relationship between Apollo and Asclepius, that is the relationship between art and medicine’. In the L. Paszkiewicz Room in the Collegium Anatomicum building, 5  T. Chałubiński Street

4 February 2019 – Dr. Emilia Olechnowicz (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences ISPAN) – The body as ‘matter worthy of a theatrical setting’. About early modern anatomical theatres. In the W. Grzywo – Dąbrowski Lecture Room in the Department of Forensic Medicine building, 1 W. Oczki Street.

4 March 2019 – Dr. Maria Turos (Medical University of Warsaw) – Lecturers in Uniform – ‘Warsaw School of Medicine’ 1809–1831. In the A. Dobrzański Room in the Library and Information Centre, 63 Żwirki i Wigury Street.

1 April 2019 – Professor Dr. Hab. Elżbieta Wichrowska (Faculty of Polish Language and Literature, University of Warsaw) – From prophecies, ‘reforms’ of outfits, diets to heal the body – that is the first ‘bloomerists’, mesmerists, homoeopaths, vegetarians, hydropathists and abstinents in England and elsewhere… Room no. 27 in the Library and Information Centre, 63 Żwirki i Wigury Street.

6 May 2019 – Dr. Karolina Paczyńska – Famous doctors, hospitals of the past and the teaching of medicine along the Royal Route (walk). Meet at the Barbican, on the side of Krzywe Koło Street

3 June 2019 – Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz (Museum of the History of Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw) – In the shadow of Warsaw’s skyscrapers. Secrets of the Lindley Campus (walk). Meet in front of the Collegium Anatomicum building at 5 T. Chałubiński Street.

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Professor Dr. Hab. Witold Janusz Rudowski, MD (1918 – 2001)

On 3 December 2018, in the reading room of the Main Library of the Medical University of Warsaw, an exhibition was opened entitled: ‘Surgeon and Soldier of the Home Army (AK), or the reminiscences of the extraordinary life of Professor Dr. Hab. Witold Janusz Rudowski, MD (1918 – 2001), recipient of an honorary degree from the Medical Academy of Warsaw (1978) on the centenary of his birth’.

Visitors will be able to learn about the Professor’s interesting biography and also see, among other things, part of an interesting collection of medals belonging to Prof. Witold Janusz Rudowski, which are on loan to the museum. The medals were awarded to Professor Rudowski in recognition of his professional achievements. The names of many outstanding Polish and foreign doctors appear on them: Józef Struś, Tytus Chałubiński, Karol Marcinkowski, Ludwik Rydygier, Louis Pasteur, as well as the names of universities and medical societies.

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Józef Polikarp Brudziński Salus aegroti suprema lex esto

Józef Polikarp Brudziński Salus aegroti suprema lex esto

Introduce:

And when all of us, both the teachers and students, and the entire university
community, envelop our reborn Alma Mater with care and love, it will remain
and flourish, and future generations will look on it with pride and repeat: The
rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that
house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. It was with
these words that Rector Józef Polikarp Brudziński ended his speech during
the inaugural celebration of the University of Warsaw on 15 November 1915.
Whereas I, on the hundredth anniversary of his death, would like to recall
a beautiful chapter in the history of both Polish education and medicine,
commemorating the life and academic achievements of the revived
University of Warsaw’s first rector—a world renowned neurologist, paediatrician and invaluable academic teacher, who was loved by his students.
It is a real honour to have had a predecessor who was such a celebrity, and
who was involved in so many spheres of activity: medical, academic, social
and political. It also provides me with strong motivation and the challenge to
discharge my duties with due care and diligence for the benefit of the whole
academic community, one hundred years after the reinstatement of the independent University of Warsaw and the appointment of the first rector in its history. Józef Polikarp Brudziński was the first in a series of illustrious and
great personages who, in turn, until 1950, were rectors of the University of
Warsaw, and later of the Medical Academy and of the Medical University of
Warsaw.
Józef Polikarp Brudziński was not only the first rector of the reborn University
of Warsaw, but he was also a physician. Later in the University of Warsaw’s
history—between 1915 and 1949—five of the seventeen rectors were also
medical doctors: Professor Jan Mazurkiewicz – a psychiatrist; Professor
Franciszek Krzyształowicz – a dermatologist; Professor Mieczysław
Michałowicz – a paediatrician; Professor Jerzy Modrakowski – a
pharmacologist and Professor Franciszek Czubalski – a physiologist.
I sincerely belief that 100 years after the death of Józef Polikarp Brudziński,
both current and future generations will look back with pride and gratitude at
the achievements he left to posterity, and will repeat: The rain came down, the
streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
I congratulate the Museum of the History of Medicine for preparing an
exhibition to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Rector Józef
Brudziński—the father of both the revived University of Warsaw and of the
Medical University of Warsaw.

Professor Mirosław Wielgoś, MD
Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw.

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Professor Andrzej Trzebski – renowned scholar

The Director of the Institute of Cardiology named after the Polish Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Professor Tomasz Hryniewiecki; the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences), Professor Witold Rużyłło, and the Director of the Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz, cordially invite you to an academic seminar under the Honorary Patronage of Professor Mirosław Wielgoś, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw devoted to the memory of Professor Andrzej Trzebski, a renowned scholar.

The seminar will be held in the Conference Room of the Children’s Clinical Hospital named after Józef Polikarp Brudziński  at 63A  Żwirki i Wigury Street (level – 1) on 28 November 2018, 11 a.m.

Programme:

Professor Mirosław Wielgoś ― The creative academic career of Professor Andrzej Trzebski

Professor Ewa Szczepańska-Sadowska ― Professor Trzebski, a physiologist: his contribution to clinical sciences

Professor Gianfranco Parati ― Blood pressure variability: mechanisms and clinical implications

Professor Krzysztof Narkiewicz ― Chemoreflexes in health and cardiovascular disease

Professor Aleksander Prejbisz ― Sympathetic nervous system and catecholamines ― a focus on secondary hypertension

Professor Andrzej Januszewicz ― Sympathetic nervous system and cardiovascular risk

Discussion

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INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITIES. RECIPIENTS OF HONORARY DEGREES IN POLAND IN THE YEARS 1918–1939


You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition ‘Independent Universities. Recipients of Honorary Degrees in Poland in the years 1918–1939’, which will take place on 16 October 2018 at 2 p.m. in Warsaw, in the Old University Library (BUW) building (26/28 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street). The main organizer is the Museum of the University of Warsaw. One of the co-organizers is the Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, as well as other branches of the Association of University Museums, such as: the Museum of the Technical University of Warsaw, the Museum of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Museum of the University of Wrocław, the Museum of the University of Toruń.  Support was provided by the University of Warsaw and the National Digital Archives.

The exhibition will be open until the end of October – in the main foyer of the Old University Library (BUW) building and also at an open-air exhibition at 32 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street near the entrance to the Museum of the University of Warsaw.

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65th Anniversary of Receiving an MD’s Graduation Diploma.

As well as graduates and their tutors, the event was also attended by: Professor Mirosław Wielgoś, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw; Professor Mieczysław Szostek, President of the Association of Students of Warsaw Medicine and Pharmacy; Dr. Krzysztof Makuch – member of the District Chamber of Medicine in Warsaw, and Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz, who became director of the Museum of the History of Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) from 1 October 2018

All the guests were greeted by Dr. Irena Brydowska-Skórzewska – representative of the year, who has held this position since she began her studies in 1948 at the then-Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw.

Dr. Irena Brydowska-Skórzewska presented Dr. Adam Tyszkiewicz with a copy of Kronika (Chronicle) which she was donating to the Museum of the History of Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM). The chronicle contains archival materials, photographs and documents relating to activities during the 1948-1953 academic year, as well as of consecutive meetings of the graduates which have been held to the present day. The Museum of the History of Medicine also prepared a multimedia presentation for guests which consisted of photographs of the students and their contemporaries from the 1953 year group.

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Sixtieth Anniversary of Receiving an MD’s Graduate Diploma. Academic Year 1952–1958

On 15 June 2018 an event took place in which graduates who had obtained their diplomas in 1958 from the Faculty of Medicine (now the Academy of Medicine) had their diplomas renewed after 60 years.

Sixty-two graduates participated in the event, as well as University authorities, including Professor Mirosław Wielgoś and the Dean of the first Faculty of Medicine, Professor Paweł Włodarski.

The invited guests were welcomed firstly by Professor Mieczysław Szostek, the organizer of the event. At the opening ceremony those who had sadly passed away and had therefore been denied the opportunity of attending this extraordinary event were also remembered; Professor Mieczysław Szostek invited those present to hold a minute’s silence in honour of those who could not be with them. Professor Mirosław Wielgoś then gave a speech. He thanked the jubilarians for coming on this beautiful day and congratulated them on their achievements and accomplishments on behalf of the University. He emphasized that the 1958 academic year group was without doubt exceptional and had forged many talented and gifted doctors who had gained fame.

After the official speeches, the protagonists of the event took a trip down memory lane: they watched multimedia presentations with historic photographs featuring both the academic staff and themselves from the time of their matriculation and medical studies. The photographs shown in the presentation come from the University archives, and also from the private collections of Professors Mieczysław Szostek and Zbigniew Miller.

 

The jubilarians received commemorative diplomas confirming that throughout all the years which had passed since their graduation from the Academy of Medicine in Warsaw, they had faithfully heeded the Hippocratic Oath and had become the pride of the Polish medical establishment.

Klaudia Wendycz – Press Office

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THE LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS 2018

The Long Night of Museums will take place on the ground floor and first floor of the Gallery of Temporary Exhibitions of the Museum of the History of Medicine at 63 Żwirki i Wigury Street (Library and Information Centre).

Programme:

  • History and development of Cardiology. – Sixty-fifth anniversary of the Faculty and Clinic of Cardiology at the Medical University of Warsaw. – Modern technologies in cardiology.
  • Józef Polikarp Brudziński… Salus aegroti suprema lex esto (The well-being of the patient shall be the most important law)
  • Centenary of the Faculty and Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of Warsaw
  • When human memory fades, stones continue to speak – Traces of the History of the Medical University of Warsaw on plaques and in sculpture.

You are cordially invited to attend!

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CENTENARY OF THE FACULTY AND DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Professor Dr. Hab. Dagmara Mirowska-Guzel, MD, Head of the Faculty and Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of Warsaw and Professor Dr. Hab. Edward Towpik, MD, Director of the Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw
cordially invite you to a conference and exhibition devoted to:
the centenary of the opening of the Faculty and Department of Pharmacology,
which will be held under the patronage of Professor Mirosław Wielgoś, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw and Professor Dr. Hab. Jan Pachecek, Head of the Committee of Therapy and Drug Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)

2 February 2018 at 12 noon, in the Museum of the History of Medicine,
Medical University of Warsaw (WUM)
63 Żwirki i Wigury Street

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JÓZEF POLIKARP BRUDZIŃSKI… SALUS AEGROTI SUPREMA LEX ESTO

Professor Dr. Hab. Edward Towpik, MD, Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) and Professor Dr. Hab. Ewa Skrzypek, MD, School of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) cordially invite you to a seminar and opening of the exhibition:

JÓZEF POLIKARP BRUDZIŃSKI… SALUS AEGROTI SUPREMA LEX ESTO

under the Honorary Patronage of Professor Mirosław Wielgoś Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw on 18 December 2017 at 3.30 p.m. at the Museum of the History of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) 63 Żwirki i Wigury Street

Wszystkie Prawa Zastrzeżone – Muzeum Historii Medycyny